List of application servers

Last updated February 18, 2025

This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.

C

Enduro/X – A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source, C API

C++

Tuxedo – Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
Wt – A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
POCO C++ Libraries – A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
CppCMS
Enduro/X – A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source

Go

Enduro/X ASG – Application server for Go. This provides XATMI and XA facilities for Golang. Go application can be built by normal Go executable files which in turn provides stateless services, which can be load balanced, clustered and reloaded on the fly without service interruption by means of administrative work only. Framework provides distributed transaction processing facility for Go.

Java

Product	Vendor	Edition	Last release	Jakarta EE compatibility ^[1]	Servlet	JSP	HTTP/2	License
ColdFusion	Adobe Systems	2016.0.1	2016-05-01	7 partial platform	3.1	2.3	No	Proprietary, commercial
Enterprise Server	Borland	6.7	2007-01	1.4	2.4	2.0	No	Proprietary, commercial
Geronimo	ASF	3.0.1	2013-05-28	6 full platform	3.0	2.2	No	Free, Apache
GlassFish	Eclipse Foundation	7.0.19^[2]	2024-11-01	10 full platform	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, EPL, GPL + classpath exception
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform	Red Hat	8.0^[3]	2024-02-05	10 full platform	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, LGPL
Jetty	Eclipse Foundation	12.0.8	2024-04-03	10 full platform^[4]	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, Apache 2.0, EPL
JEUS	TmaxSoft	8	2013-08	7 full platform	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
Lucee (Formerly Railo)	Lucee Association Switzerland	5.3.2.77	2019-05-27	7 partial platform	3.1	2.3	No	Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception
NetWeaver Application Server	SAP AG	7.4	2013-01-11	5	2.5	2.1	No	Proprietary, commercial
Oracle Containers for J2EE	Oracle Corporation	10.1.3.5.0	2009-08	1.4	2.4	2.0	No	Proprietary, commercial
Orion Application Server	IronFlare	2.0.7	2006-03-09	1.3	2.3	1.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
Payara Server	Payara Services	6.2025.1	2025-01-01	10 full platform	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception
Resin Servlet Container (open source)	Caucho Technology	4.0.62	2019-05-23	6 Web Profile^[5]	3.0	2.2	No	Free, GPL
Resin Professional Application Server	Caucho Technology	4.0.62	2019-05-23	6 Web Profile	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
Tomcat	ASF	10.1.10	2023-06-23	9 partial platform	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, Apache v2
TomEE	ASF	8.0.15	2023-05-08	8 Web Profile	4.0	2.3	Yes	Free, Apache v2
WebLogic Server	Oracle Corporation (formerly BEA Systems)	14.1.1.0.0	2020-03-30 ^[6]	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Proprietary, commercial
IBM WebSphere Application Server	IBM	24.0.0.5	2024-05-21^[7]	10 full platform,^[8]	6.0^[9]	3.1^[10]	Yes^[11]	Proprietary, commercial
WebSphere AS Community Edition	IBM	3.0.0.4	2013-06-21	6 full platform	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
WildFly (formerly JBoss AS)	Red Hat (formerly JBoss)	35.0.1.Final^[12]	2025-02-06	10 full platform	6.0	3.1	Yes	Free, Apache v2

Apache MINA – an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
Netty – a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js

JavaScript

Broadvision – Server-side JavaScript AS. One of the early entrants in the market during the eCommerce dot-com bubble, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.
Node.js – implements Google's V8 engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. A vigorous open-source developer community on GitHub has implemented many supporting products, notably npm for package management and Connect and Express app server layers.
Deno – community developed Rust project, spearheaded by Ryan Dahl who also created Node.js, it directly targets TypeScript but also supports JavaScript and WebAssembly via V8; employs asynchronous, event-based I/O model via promise-based APIs and Tokio scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
Phusion Passenger

LPC

Dworkin's Game Driver (DGD)

Lua

.NET

Microsoft

Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:

Internet Information Services web server
.NET Framework (Windows Communication Foundation, Web Services, .NET Remoting, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), ASP.NET, ADO.NET)
Distributed Transactions, COM+
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Authorization Manager

Third-party

Mono – Developed by Xamarin, licensed under MIT

Objective-C

GNUstepWeb - WebObjects 4.5 compatible, licensed under LGPL

PHP

Appserver.io, an open-source PHP application server.
RoadRunner, built by Spiral Scout is high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager written in Golang.

Python

Ruby

Smalltalk

Seaside – A continuations based web application server

Tcl

AOLserver – Forked from NaviServer after developer was bought by AOL in 1995
NaviServer – Resumed independent development after AOL dropped AOLserver support.

Container Based

Container based application servers run each application in a container. The application can be written in any programming language.

Clace - Application server implemented in Go, which builds and runs web applications in a container.

References

↑ "Java EE Compatibility". www.oracle.com.
↑ "7.0.19 | projects.eclipse.org". projects.eclipse.org. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
↑ "Red Hat Extends Java Support in the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8". www.redhat.com. 6 February 2024.
↑ "The Eclipse Jetty Project". eclipse.dev.
↑ "Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile". InfoQ.
↑ Lyons, Will (2020-06-27). "WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available". The WebLogic Server Blog.
↑ "What is new in this release of Liberty". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
↑ "Jakarta EE 10 programming model support". IBM .
↑ "Jakarta Servlet 6.0". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
↑ "Jakarta Server Pages 3.1". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
↑ "HTTP/2 support for Liberty". www.ibm.com.
↑ "WildFly 35.0.1 is released!". Wildfly Official website.

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[1] "Java EE Compatibility". www.oracle.com.

[2] "7.0.19 | projects.eclipse.org". projects.eclipse.org. Retrieved 2024-11-19.

[3] "Red Hat Extends Java Support in the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8". www.redhat.com. 6 February 2024.

[4] "The Eclipse Jetty Project". eclipse.dev.

[5] "Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile". InfoQ.

[6] Lyons, Will (2020-06-27). "WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available". The WebLogic Server Blog.

[7] "What is new in this release of Liberty". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.

[8] "Jakarta EE 10 programming model support". IBM .

[9] "Jakarta Servlet 6.0". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.

[10] "Jakarta Server Pages 3.1". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.

[11] "HTTP/2 support for Liberty". www.ibm.com.

[12] "WildFly 35.0.1 is released!". Wildfly Official website.

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